phyphor.one-dash.org

Likes geeky things & people (KoL, JoCo, MC Frontalot, MC Lars, Kevin Smith etc.). Agender/Abrupt/Alive. It/It/Its pronouns (yes, seriously). Quoigender.

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In case X goes away sooner rather than later I have set up a Link Tree with links to some possible replacements: https://t.co/FKEc3AsWMq

I'm not sure if I should add a discord username on there? Or a general email address?

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I'm not saying sport is magic, but I'm also not *not* saying that.

British Asians have been part of a multicultural Britain for decades, if not centuries, and people can love both here *and* there and they are *still British*.

[Harjap Singh Bhangal @HarjapBhangal]

Scenes at Edgbaston where India are playing Pakistan but people are watching the England game.

2 sets of rival supporters united by their love of England!

#PakvsInd #ENGSUI #comeonengland #england

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

In the 1980s, a 21 year old shop worker in Dublin called Mary Manning refused to put a single grapefruit through the tills.

Why? Because it was a product of apartheid South Africa. And though she was pressured and threatened by management, and eventually suspended along with 9 other workers, she never backed down.

These workers went on strike for 3 years. They held picket lines at night to block the delivery of South African produce. One woman, a single mum called Veronica Munroe, lost her house because she couldn't pay the mortgage.

And I can't help but wonder, had they been pundits at the time, how Marina Hyde and Richard Osman might have talked about Dunnes Store workers. Would they have seen the value of refusing to co-operate with the apartheid regime, no matter how small the act?

Or would they have branded them "wreckers" too?

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This is a really fun board game and you don't need to be a fan of the computer game to enjoy it!

[Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! (also on bluesky) @ithayla]

@GambleMike hi I'm the co-designer of the mass effect board game out this fall. play as shepard, garrus, liara, tali and wrex in a race against time to reclaim a cerberus research cruiser. branching choices and tactical combat in an all new mass effect story

https://t.co/jJfBb4uVk3

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@ithayla Yeah.
The situation was wild but so, too, were some of the comments!
I was faintly amused by the "anarchist" we seemed to think his ethics should set community standards for other people and who also told me I was being "overly emotional".

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@nevereverDave @mimmymum Thanks, David!

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Man with allegations of sexual misconduct supports another man with allegations of misconduct because shitheels stick together and expect the patriarchy to ensure they never face consequences.

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@quendergeer You'll be arrested and thrown in jail if you say you enjoy pussy in bio, these days.

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@OffMenuOfficial @GrandmasterNabz @EdGambleComedy @acast Eventually we got it in Great Britain and we used the name "an orange" for the fruit, and then used the name to refer to the colour which had only really been referred to as "geoluhread" (literally yellow-red) in Old English.

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@OffMenuOfficial @GrandmasterNabz @EdGambleComedy @acast 2) the colour is named after the fruit. In English we didn't have a separate word for "yellow-red" until we had the fruit, which was originally a "naranga" (or similar) in Sanskrit, but as the fruit spread through Europe the name shifted and changed through rebracketing.

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@jessiegender I read somewhere a post that outlined pretty much exactly what the "apology video" was going to say and that, when it doesn't work, he's going to switch to right-wing grifting.

It shows how common the plays are.

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Trying to determine the secret keypresses needed to remove region-locking from my gender so I can play DVDs from ... so I can be accepted for who I really am.

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@ThoughtSlime I mean, I don't call you a guy, but sure.
And, yeah, nobody deserves uncritical support.

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@ShadowTodd @Kirvyx The community are working on it in their new (ex-)fan-made & run discord server, but that includes collating information other people (such as yourself) have found.

But the hunt is on!

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@realvicktoon Ah, "the only valid nonbinary identity is AFAB woman-lite" sort of belief that ends up hurting so many nonbinary people.

I can deal with a bigot calling me a man, but when someone apparently accepts nonbinary people exist but that I don't qualify, that shit hurts.

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More than "Fortune 500 companies aren't moral actors" they are, in fact, the very thing that AI people have been warning about: a system with power and a goal that isn't aligned with humanity. We don't need to worry about an AGI turning everything to paperclips with them about!

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I had this exchange with Elon here on Twitter over a year ago and we are still having the same conversation so I guess…let’s do this.

Fortune 500 companies aren’t overly moral actors. They make decisions based on whether they think they will make more or less money.

Advertisers are not leaving Twitter because they are trying to make a statement or achieve some goal (which would be a boycott). They are leaving Twitter because they aren’t sure whether advertising on the platform is delivering negative or positive value, and why spend a bunch of money doing something that might actually be /hurting/ you.

The reason it might be hurting them is fuzzier. But, in my opinion, it’s not mostly to do with their ads showing up next to bigoted content. I think it’s that this platform is increasingly all about one guy in a lot of people’s minds. That one guy is both the most influential power use of the platform, and the owner of the platform.

And that guy has trained everyone to expect that he is going to say increasingly inflammatory and unhinged stuff.

That means employees and customers of those companies (who /are/ moral actors) don’t get good vibes from the company they like advertising with a company they don’t like. This is a symptom of the culture war that Elon Musk desperately wants to inflame because he is stuck inside of a really tight “you are always right” feedback loop of fans and friends who feel incapable of questioning him.

He has attained a kind of moral certainty that he is fighting a war against an existential threat to humanity. That inevitably results in either an intervention of good friends or a complete crash (often times a violent one). But that’s when the person isn’t the richest person in the world. I don’t know what happens when it’s the richest person in the world, but I’m trying not to watch it like it’s a train wreck, because, just like with train wrecks, real people are getting hurt.

That moral certainty is allowing him to do things that are very clearly bad for the economics of the platform (but good for keeping people talking about Elon Musk, which (as a person who has fallen into that trap before) is important to keep an eye on as an underlying motivation for all of this behavior.)

It is not at all surprising that large advertisers, who advertise specifically to ensure their brands are perceived positively, are leaving (at least for the moment) a platform whose biggest brand ambassador is tweeting Great Replacement theories and Pizzagate memes.

It is not an attempt to change Twitter or Elon’s behavior. It is an effort to not lose money.

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@stevemushero @IanColdwater Relying on ChatGPT for your work? That worked out really well for those lawyers that one time, right‽

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@BusyPuer @OscartheMoon But the punchline doesn't follow the premise so not only is it not funny it's also just bad.

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I don't use X much, these days, but sometimes there are wonderful things said here: